ya but i got kicked off everyday last week and today i was watching the number went from 705 to 62 at around 2:48 then it went back to like 4 something and then dropped again at around 2:56 but then went up again, i think their server become overloaded or something it cant handle 700 or 1000 people on at once!!

"just because we don't have the shop_xxxx doesn't mean we've never bought anything from sierra."

uhh...never said that. I said those of use who bought something FIRST, which shop_XXX people did.

Cheers

sorry i meant to say just because we don't have the shop_xxxx in our name, doesn't mean we didn't buy something first like you're talking about. i did have a shop_xxxx as did a few people i'm sure. we just were able to change our names after.

Just wanted to thank everyone for the congrats... appreciate it for sure. Still can't believe I won. You know what I'm going to say next... "never won anything in my life" and it's true... I never have. I guess I can't say that anymore, hell ya! I'll tell you something else too... you will not be seeing this board on ebay next week. I will ride this thing till one of us snaps, either the board or me. I'm already planning my fun!!!

Thanks again to Jenn and the people at SS for the great prizes and sales!

Second, this is total BS! Nobody who actually bought something from the store before becoming a member has won anything in any of the giveaways I've seen.

Those of us with Shop_XXXX in the name are at a disadvantage here. We make up at least 1/3 of the pool each time and yet we've not won a single thing. and we can't change our name so...

Stop crying dude.....why don't you change your name if you think its a conspiracy theory against people with the shop_XXX name. I changed my name and it wasn't a problem at all......yet i still haven't won.

This is for the Sierra Staff, in regards to getting more people on line for the give-away, I don't believe you have the bandwidth to support 1000+ people. It is nearly impossible to even log on when you have 500+. I gotta belive that 75% of the people are logging into the main thread which has the chat running and the web cam running at the same time. If you have 500 people viewing the webcam, that has to consume alot of bandwidth. It might be better to announce the winner in chat. I'm not 100% sure, but maybe turning the web cam off and leaving the chat going might alleviate some of the bandwidth issues, which in turn would allow more people to log on. Another thing, I think people are doing, they are constantly refreshing the main forum page to see how many people are online, this too is consuming alot of bandwidth. I'm no IT expert, but something should be done to allow more people to log on. Don't get me wrong, I have been able to get on everyday, but there is alot of lag. Just some food for thought!

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